Occupational Therapy Actions in the Direction of Pre-professional and Professional Rehabilitation in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Students with autism spectrum disorder are faced with serious challenges such as dismissal, low income, emotional and behavioral problems like self-respect, depression, and aggression in their employment course due to the difficulties- which continue into adulthood- in social and academic skills. The research aims to put forth solutions to pre-professional and professional rehabilitation for teachers of the children afflicted with autism spectrum disorder.
As teachers are the only educational sources of the students, they make students better adapt to the daily life and working conditions with recourse to some basic skills by teaming up with the occupational therapists. The research concludes that teachers can help the children, afflicted with autism spectrum disorder, in better adaptation by relying on life skills, educational skills, perception, vision, coming up with natural situations in order to acquaint and reduce stress, systematic programs, perception of details and emotions, nonverbal IQ, language comprehension, expressive language, and executive functions.